When John Stonehouse's clothes were found on Miami Beach on 20 November 1974, many people presumed that the UK Member of Parliament had drowned – until he turned up in Australia.

With a new series launching today, Apple TV+'s spy show about MI5 rejects is more popular than ever. As with the Mick Herron books it's based on, it has lots to say about the UK today.

More people than ever before are travelling through the UK's canals. Here's what it's like – and how you can plan your own canal getaway.

It attracted Winston Churchill, inspired James Bond and is set to rename its airport after the late Queen Elizabeth II. But this decidedly British resort isn't actually British.

For Hong Kong’s British colonisers, there was only one solution to the territory’s stifling summers: ice.